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And no, the problems you described are not there.
On my Windows 11 laptop it takes about 2sec to start and basically any song starts in less than a second.
Maybe it's Apple making Spotify crappy on Mac to promote iTunes?
About the rescue in Finnish: https://yle.fi/a/74-20203587
But I have very recent first hand experience of creating a video for our startup's Facebook post with Minimax image-to-video inference, from an image of our animated avatar character.
...And yes, first the videos were bad quality with lots of inconsistencies, but after adding "animated" to the prompt, in front of the "man" word, the result was pretty great already on the first try! Which I then ended up even using. (you can even check it here if interested https://fb.watch/xRC-fptexM/)
Perhaps it should be self-evident, but still, it was not to me. :)
Edit. I guess my point was also that the animated character in the video ended up being somewhat 3D as well.
I had no idea about Make.com or n8n, they seem interesting. Thanks for the tip! Will check them out.
There's plenty of interesting and fast growing startups still left here. For example Supermetrics, Varjo, Smartly, Iceye, Aiven to name a few. IMO you are being pessimistic.
- Supercell sold 81.4% stake to Tencent in 2018 with a valuation of $10.2 billion.
- Wolt was acquired by DoorDash in 2021 with a valuation of $8.1 billion.
The list is much longer with startups that currently generate revenues of tens or hundreds of millions in a year that have not been sold.